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Fiction: The Headache: A Short Story

They say write what you know—but no one ever said it had to hurt this much. The Headache is, quite literally, the most painful story I’ve ever written. And I don’t…

Gabriel LucateroMay 5, 2025

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Real Talk: Forty; The Story So Far (And the Stories Still Untold)

They said life begins at forty. I don’t know who “they” are, but I suspect they didn’t have a stack of unfinished manuscripts, a laptop with more coffee stains than…

Gabriel LucateroApril 28, 2025

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Real Talk: Breaking the Chains of Overthinking

A Writer’s Guide to Escaping Analysis Paralysis Analysis paralysis is a silent killer for writers. It’s like trying to write while standing knee-deep in quicksand—every step forward is met with…

Gabriel LucateroApril 23, 2025

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Real Talk: Writing Is Meditation

Writing isn’t just an art, or a craft, or whatever flowery term your favorite MFA program called it. Writing, my friend, is meditation. Before you roll your eyes and mutter,…

Gabriel LucateroApril 12, 2025

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Real Talk: How to Give Writing Advice Without Sounding Like a Know-It-All

Writing advice is like handing out road maps to people driving in circles. You’d think giving writing advice would be easy, right? Just whip out a list of “rules,” sprinkle…

Gabriel LucateroMarch 29, 2025

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Book Review: The Trial

Kafka’s The Trial: A Book Review I once spent four hours on the phone with an insurance company, trying to figure out why they denied a claim. Each agent passed…

Gabriel LucateroMarch 14, 2025

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Real Talk: The Digital Hustle; Wrestling with the Internet and My Own Sanity

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a writer. A damn good one. A writer who wanted nothing more than to put his work out…

Gabriel LucateroMarch 6, 2025

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Book Review: The Metamorphosis

Imagine this: You wake up one day, and instead of rolling out of bed, rubbing your eyes, and checking your phone for notifications that don’t matter, you realize something is…

Gabriel LucateroMarch 2, 2025

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Real Talk: How to Be a Writer When Your Muse Is on Vacation

It’s 8 a.m., and I’m staring at a blank page—coffee in hand, laptop on my desk, and absolutely no ideas in my head. The muse, if she ever existed, is…

Gabriel LucateroJanuary 16, 2025

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Fiction: Introducing Missing; My 2010 Relic, Unearthed

Writing Missing felt a bit like rummaging through an old junk drawer—nostalgic and oddly painful, but worth it for the gems buried beneath the clutter. I wrote this story back…

Gabriel LucateroJanuary 13, 2025

FICTION, REVIEWS, AND REAL TALK.

Fiction: The Headache: A Short Story

Real Talk: Forty; The Story So Far (And the Stories Still Untold)

Real Talk: Breaking the Chains of Overthinking

Real Talk: Writing Is Meditation

Real Talk: How to Give Writing Advice Without Sounding Like a Know-It-All

Book Review: The Trial

Real Talk: The Digital Hustle; Wrestling with the Internet and My Own Sanity

Book Review: The Metamorphosis

Real Talk: How to Be a Writer When Your Muse Is on Vacation

Fiction: Introducing Missing; My 2010 Relic, Unearthed

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